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deeeep breaths

@fleurdelisan

I am very small and very anxious, like a chihuahua in an airport.
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Reblogged mens-rights-activia
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“the Pam to my Jim” “flirt to roast ratio “fluent in sarcasm” “not political” “hobbies: travel” “debate me: the office or friends” “just here for your dog” “like Chandler and Monica” “girls on lexapro” “helen keller wasn’t real” “looking for a goth mommy” “pineapple does not go on pizza” “i’m a slytherin”

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D1 yapper I have a degree in yapology always down for a good yap session im looking for a yapper

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A couple weeks ago I was practicing my owl calls on a night hike and I successfully called in a barred owl. My owl call is pretty good, but I've never called an owl to me from afar because I rarely do night hikes and so I don't get much chance to. I had expected to be really excited about this, especially since two of my coworkers are really skilled at owl calls and they don't usually get a response, much less a full conversation, but instead I felt so guilty. I eventually had to start ignoring this poor deceived owl that was following my call through the park. I felt like I catfished him.

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I was gonna say "who among us would follow an inhuman voice in the forest yelling HEY, HEY YOU WHAT'S UP?" but then I remembered this website has me pigeonholed as Most Likely To Be Taken By The Fae. So. Yeah fair enough to this owl, I would probably do the same.

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Time for my quarterly sexuality crisis (microlabel edition)

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Reblogged lilaxthegreat
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I see this post all the time and I'm so confused. Most people throughout history were busier than your average resident of a developed country is now. My primary reaction to reading about the past since I was a child has been "I'm glad I don't live then, I'm too weak for that, I could not do that much work all the time."

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In the past things took longer to do but they often required a waiting period. You had to chop wood, put it in your stove, and light it, but it took a few hours for it to get hot enough for baking and then another hour for the bread to fully cook. History books will say things like "It took 4 hours to make a loaf of bread" but they don't mention that you only had to do actual work for a fraction of that time and the rest could be devoted to other tasks or relaxing for a while

Employee workload has doubled or tripled because of modern technology. It makes things faster but also creates less downtime which employers have filled with more responsibilities. You can do more work in a 10 minute period if all the files are on the computer but in the olden days you got to take a short walk to the filing cabinet and let your mind wander while you thumbed through folders, which means a modern 10 minutes of work is more mentally exhausting. The amount of work one employee has to do today used to be split between 2 or 3 people. We lost those moments of downtime we used to get by having to do things the slow way

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Reblogged pangur-and-grim
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my personal pick for most underrated animal is the european legless lizard, which i think is often taken to just look like a normal and rather plain snake, but if you're familiar with reptile anatomy at all it looks more like some sort of bizarre heraldic fantasy creature than basically anything else on earth

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They are so uncanny valley to me, partially because of how they look, but moreso because of how different handling them is from actual snakes.

If you've held a snake, you probably know that, for the most part, they're good at holding on to you. They're pliable and you can bend them around pretty easily. They grip onto you on their own. An excellent experience, overall.

These guys are rigid as HELL. They're covered in these scales called osteoderms that have bone in them, and it makes them STIFF. This makes supporting them comfortably much more difficult, especially because you need to support these guys specifically at their hips.

Also, one of their main defenses against predators that have caught them is to death roll and twist their bodies. So if a legless lizard does not want to be held, it is going to put in a GOOD deal of effort to roll out of your hands and probably fall to the ground.

They can also drop their tails, which is nerve-wracking.

#theyre also objectively hilarious to watch#they have the faces and attitudes of jurassic park velociraptors#RAVENOUS creatures and their faces are SO dragonesque to me
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Reblogged lovesflower
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Hey you all know about that fungus that possesses ants to make them climb on the tip of grass blades in hopes of getting eaten by a cow, so that the fungus can continue its life cycle in the cow's guts? Because I think that's the kind of thing that's wrong with cave divers.

We don't know what's down there. We don't know what's gotten into their heads that makes them so determined to physically, personally go down there to find out. But I wouldn't entirely dismiss the possibility that whatever has gotten into them is very invested in getting eaten by whatever is down there.

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"This hole was made for me"

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